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Show jerered over that meal (Editor's lote: (Nephi is famed as having nore pretty girls than any other ;own in Utah.) We were saying?- let me see! rt-here did we leave off? Oh, ye . We were saying that at seven in the evening, after being nine hours out from Delta, we were just leaving Nephi. It grew dark soon, and through Payson, Spanish Fork and Springville we sped in the dark. The miles were being devoured now. The roads were good, the machine was working nicely, we had no mishap, and everything was just right to make time. It was a "durn" good thing we scampered across Provo in the dark. They have a detention home there, and I was leary they'd yank me in to finish my term; but then Albert said it was like measles, a feller eventually outgrew it; though he added, "some grow slow" and one of his eyes got right good and busy studying the landscape right through the range of my noodle, just as if there was nothing . there, while the other eye twink- led merrily in the corner my way. But he'd promised my wife to deliver me in Salt Lake City, so he kept on the outskirts of Provo and gave the Nuttorium a wide berth.' It was. getting along pretty late as we chugged through American - Fork and Lehi, and when we came round the point of the hill and saw "the city" before us it was after midnight, and the breezes raw and cool. We went through Murray a little beyond the speed limit, but try as we might to hurry, how those last few miles did seem to drag! From Fourteenth South to Brig-ham Brig-ham street was the longest I ever knew it before. Well at half past one,, after being on the road from Delta since ten fifteen in the morning, we got to my home in Salt Lake, cold, jounced, and . right glad to call quits. We had been out a little over thirteen hours. But it was my first overland trip, and I enjoyed every inch of it, andI. thanked Albert j-ight royally for his kindness in taking me along. The next afternoon Albert took us around the city on a tour of sight seeing, up Brigham Street through Federal Heights to the Ft. Douglass; back to ninth East, etc. etc. and, no!-No! not home. "Nosiree," not on your life, --not until after we'd passed a brewery. I never saw "The city of Saints" (that means me and others) looking better: beauti-ful!-streets clean', trees a mass of welcome green, lawns inviting and houses galore, especially in the districts now. being advertised. adver-tised. I remarked to Mrs. Beck-with Beck-with the wonderful building up in five years since we had visited visit-ed those parts before. I forgot to tell at the outset that Frank Heise and Albert Leutheauser are both from nearby near-by towns in Nebraska, and their acquaintance is very close and intimate, better described as fast friends. Albert is taking back to Mr Heise's former home, the daughter, Miss Maud Heise, who will live with an uncle after spending a short time visiting . Mrs. Leutheauser. Albert and Miss H3ise left my home in Salt Lake Sunday afternoon at 2:30 to go on East. They were to make Morgan, Utah, that after- . noon for supper with Morg Anderson, An-derson, and start forward again Monday morning for Wyoming. Mrs. Beckwith and I enjoyed Albert's visit with us in Salt Lake City and wish to thank him for his kindness in giving me this pleasurable overland trip; and we both join in wishing him and Miss Heise a nice journey jour-ney to their home, with no mishaps, mis-haps, but a fine sight-seeing trip through three States; we took keen plesure in sending our kindest remembrances to Mrs. Leuthaeuser and the children, and hope that Time will be kind to us by soon again enjoying their company. Frank Beckwith. - Albert Leuthaeuser Leaves for Nebraska On Friday last Albert Leuthaeuser Leut-haeuser left Delta for St. Libory, Nebraska, where he owns 220 acres of farm land and where his wife and children are now living. He will stay until about the middle mid-dle of October next, and then return re-turn to Delta until the following summer, when again he will return re-turn to Nebraska. Mr. Leuthaeuser's interests in Delta and Woodrow are extensive; exten-sive; he has the big two-story house in town here nearly opposite oppo-site the depot, and at Woodrow the farm of 160; this farm has received merited notice in these columns,- and while I will not repeat re-peat what was then said, yet it gives me a great deal of pleasure to write anything pertaining to Albert, and I will entertain the readers of the Chronicle with a short narrative of an overland trip to Salt Lake City with him. We started Friday morning rather late, not being able to get away until ten fifteen. The night before the weather became settled, and with sun up of Friday Fri-day it looked encourageing. The reader will remember that for a week before we had just gone through the last convulsion of winter before it petered out; we had planned to take it the Sunday Sun-day before, but could not undertake under-take it; so with good weather Friday the trip was begun. . The roads wers slow up to the Scipio pass; We did not get to the top of the pass for lunch until un-til two o'clock. Then we glided glid-ed down the hill into Scipio, and through that cute little valley toward to-ward the big Uba Dam. From a considerable distance I spotted the tower up stream of the dam, and later, when that took my attention, I made out the down stream side of the dam itself. We drove on rapidly, but all the time giving the construction construc-tion closest scrunity; we studied the topography of either side, and general appearance of the dam, stopped the car and clambered clam-bered out to make an inspection. Unfortunateiy the pumps were not working, and the men all laid off, so that we did not see all the activity we should like to have seen; but there was . the water system leading from the pumps up the hillside and the sluiceways sluice-ways back, so that the imagination imagina-tion could easily supply the mere details of actual operation. The dam showed a water mark about three feet higher than when we visited it. The immense lake back of that dam is the biggest stack of dollars I ever saw. It was well worth the trip and I am very glad to have seen it. The next reservoir was a small one near Juab, which the workmen work-men told us was the Juab reservoir reser-voir of the Juab Developement Co. It looks nice to see activity activ-ity in irrigation schemes, and to note the country building around these storage systems. I'd like to know how a person could have the pure, uuadulterat-ed uuadulterat-ed nerve to say "we sped into Nephi?" We didnt no such thing! "Sumhoworother" we just simply oozed into that apology apol-ogy for a town. Or should we say "we trickled in," for we were as slow as sorghum in January, Janu-ary, or treacle in December. We took the machine to a garage ana betook ourselves to the Forrest House; two men that I could mention if I was that mean, lin- |